Roman Catholic Diocese of La Canea

35°30′54″N 24°01′01″E / 35.515°N 24.017°E / 35.515; 24.017 The Roman Catholic Diocese of La Canea or Cidonia (Cydonia /sɪˈdoʊniə/) was a bishopric on Crete, with see at present Chania, and afterward was twice a Latin titular see.[1][2]

History

The Ancient city of Kydonia on Crete (insular Greece) had a bishop no later than the second Byzantine rule (961 AD – 1204 AD), when it was given the modern name of Chania.

The Venetians (and shortly the Genoans) who conquered Crete firmly established a Latin diocese. It was suppressed only in 1700.

Episcopal ordinaries

(incomplete? - lacking first century; all Roman Rite)

Suffragan Bishops of Kydonia/Chania
  • Matteo (1300? – ?)
  • Giacomo (? – 1311.05.19), later Bishop of Bisaccia (Italy) (1311.05.19 – death 1328)
  • Tommaso, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1325.02.13 – 1325.06.07), later Sutri (1325.06.07 – ?)
  • Filippo (1326.06.25 – ?)
  • Francesco (? – ?)
  • Antonio (? – ?)
  • Reprandino di Santa Lucia, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1352.05.25 – ?), previously Bishop of Ario (Crete, Greece) (1349.07.08 – 1352.05.25)
  • Marco (1364.03.16 – ?)
  • Bartolomeo (1369.02.21 – ?)
  • Marco Canterano, Carmelites (O. Carm.) (1389.07.12 – ?)
  • Caterino Barbo, O.F.M. (1390.12.01 – ?)
  • Andrea Bon (1396.04.12 – ?), previously Bishop of Caorle (northeastern Italy) (1382 – 1394.02.16) and Bishop of Pedena (1394.02.16 – 1396.04.12)
  • Paolo Barozzi (1411.03.27 – ?)
  • Luca Grimani di Candia (1418.05.04 – ?), previously Bishop of Retimo (1409.11.13 – 1418.05.04)
  • Michele di Candia, O.P. (1451.10.01 – death 1479)
  • Raimondo (? – ?)
  • Antonio Ursi (1481 – death 1511)
  • Paolo (1481.03.19 – ?)
  • Bartolomeo Merula (1511.10.01 – ?)
  • Francesco de Molendina, O.F.M. (1523.07.24 – ?)
  • Agostino Donà (1525 – 1535)
  • Filippo Donà (1536.01.19 – 1565)
  • Alvise Dolfin (1565.10.26 – death 1587.12.12)
  • Domenico Bollani (or Bolano), O.P. (1588.01.29 – death 1613)
  • Andrea Corbelli (1613.02.11 – death 1614)
  • Giovanni Alberto de Garzonibus (1614.02.17 – death 1619)
  • Giorgio alias Georgius Perpignani (1619.07.15 – death 1621), previously Bishop of Tinos–Mykonos (insular Greece) (1594.11.14 – 1619.07.15) and Apostolic Administrator of Andros (insular Greece) (1611.05.13 – 1616.08.03)
  • Bernardo Florio, Crosier Canons (O.Cruc.) (1621.06.07 – 1642.04.28), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Zadar (Croatia) (1642.04.28 – death 1656.02.14)
  • Milano Benzio (1642.05.26 – death 1657)
  • Giorgio Demedi = Georgius Demedus (1657.11.19 – ?) (1657.11.19 – ?)

Titular see of Cydonia

As soon as the residential diocese was suppressed in 1700 it was turned into a Latin titular bishopric under the title of Cydonia (or Cidonia in Curiate Italian).

This was itself suppressed in 1933, having had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, with a single exception of intermediary (archiepiscopal) rank:

  • Agostino Bruti (1728.09.20 – death 1733.09.28) as emeritate; formerly Bishop of Koper (Slovenia) (1733.09.28 – 1747.10)
  • Nicolas Navarre (1735.05.25 – death 1754) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Lyon (France) (1735.05.25 – 1754)
  • Henri Hachette des Portes, Carmelites (O. Carm.) (1755.07.21 – 1771.09.23) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Reims (France) (1755.07.21 – 1771.09.23); next Bishop of Glandèves (1771.09.23 – death 1798)
  • Michał Jerzy Poniatowski (1773.07.12 – 1785.02.14), as Coadiutor Bishop of Płock (Poland); later succeeding as Bishop of Płock (1774 – 1785.02.14), finally Metropolitan Archbishop of Gniezno (Poland) (1785.02.14 – 1794.08.12)
  • Gaetano Ginanni (1775.07.17 – 1777.12.15) without actual prelature yet; next Bishop of Foligno (Italy) (1777.12.15 – death 1785.03.28)
  • François-Philippe Taboureau, Benedictine Order (O.S.B.) (1778.06.01 – ? death?), without actual prelature
  • Václav von Chlumčansky (1795.06.01 – 1802.03.29) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Praha (Prague in Bohemia, Czechia) (1795.06.01 – 1802.03.29); later Bishop of Litoměřice (Czechia) ([1801.10.15] 1802.03.29 – 1815.03.15), Metropolitan Archbishop of above Praha (Prague, Czechia) ([1814.12.30] 1815.03.15 – death 1830.06.14)
  • Tomás Díez Bedoya, Capuchin Friars Minor (O.F.M. Cap.) (1825.12.19 – death 1851.12.26) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) (1825.12.19 – 1851.12.26)
  • Joseph Larocque (1852.07.06 – 1860.06.22) as Coadjutor Bishop of Montréal (Quebec, Canada) (1852.07.06 – 1860.06.22); next Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe (Quebec, Canada) (1860.06.22 – retired 1866.02.04), emeritate as Titular Bishop of Germanicopolis (1867.01.15 – death 1887.11.18)
BIOs TO BE ELABORATED
  • George Butler (1861.06.13 – 1864.06.04)
  • Titular Archbishop José María de Jesús Yerovi Pintado, O.F.M. (1865.09.25 – 1867.04.02), Coadjutor Archbishop of Quito (Ecuador) (1865.09.25 – 1867.04.02), succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Quito (1867.04.02 – 1867.06.20)
  • Giovanni Battista Bagala Blasini (1868.05.12 – 1876.04.03)
  • Francesco Vitagliano (1876.06.26 – 1882.03.30)
  • Charles-Jacques Mouard, O.F.M. Cap. (1882.09.15 – 1888.08.08)
  • Angelus Boccamazzi (1890.06.23 – 1896)
  • Teofilo Massucci, O.F.M. (1896.08.24 – 1900.05.10)
  • Giuseppe Candido (1901.02.04 – 1906.07.04)
  • Wladyslaw Bandurski (1906.09.26 – 1932.03.06).

Titular see of Canea

Apparently based on the same Cretan historical diocese, another line of titular bishops was started in 1830 under the name Canea (also Agia in Italian).

It was suppressed in 1922 having had the following incumbents, all of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :

See also

References

  1. ^ "Diocese of Canea (Cydonia, Egée)" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016[self-published source]
  2. ^ "Titular Episcopal See of Canea" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016